Sweet Victories
Author:
Leah Eskin
photograph by Christopher Hirsheimer I won the first time I made it,” brags Ileen Wallace of Council Bluffs, Iowa, cheek-to-cheek with a jar of her red corn cob jelly. Her grandmother’s 1890 recipe was awarded a red ribbon at a past Iowa State Fair. Contemporary entries triumph, too. Judy Jordan of Des Moines revamped her caramel apple recipe (see Caramel Apples recipe), a 1995 blue ribbon winner, for the 1997 Fair with caramel frosting and gummy worms. “You need something to attract the judges,” she says. She caught their eye, and took another blue.
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